Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/85031 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2013-020
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
Behavioural economics attracted attention from environmental economists: it should help to understand why people do not respond to environmental policy measures, based on neoclassical assumptions, as predicted by theory. Moreover, understanding motives and driving forces behind pro-social, pro-environmental and cooperative behaviour should help to improve environmental policy design. The aim of this paper is a critical discussion of the way how this branch of research is interpreting the explanatory power and the normative (policy) implications of behavioural economics.
Subjects: 
behavioural economics
environmental economics
policy design
methodology
JEL: 
B41
D0
D70
Q57
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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